Edgar B. Maranan

EDGARDO B. MARANAN is a Filipino poet, essayist, fictionist, playwright, writer of children’s stories, and translator. He was born in Bauan, Batangas on 7 November 1946 and grew up in Baguio City, Philippines, where he finished his high school education. He writes in Filipino and in English, has published four books of poetry and twenty books of children's stories, and has edited or co-edited books and journals. At the age of 16, he represented the Philippines at the 1963 New …